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Latest news from Krakatau:
The growing lava dome inside Anak Krakatau's summit crater on 7 May 2012 (photo: Cornel Popescu)
Mittwoch, Mai 23, 2012
As a recent visit to Anak Krakatau shows, the summit lava dome inside the crater continues to grow. So far, no significant explosive activity seems to... [mehr]
Ash venting at Krakatau on 7 April 2012 (photo: Øystein Lund Andersen)
Dienstag, Apr 10, 2012
It appears that a new vent has opened at the new lava dome of Anak Krakatau volcano and started to emit ash, as Øystein Lund Andersen reports from a r... [mehr]

Volcanoes of the Sunda Strait, Indonesia

Krakatau (Anak Krakatau)
Krakatau (Anak Krakatau)
(caldera)
Violent eruption of Krakatau showering the summit cone with incandescent bombs.The renowned volcano Krakatau (or Krakatoa) lies in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. Collapse of the ancestral Krakatau edifice, perhaps in 416 AD, formed a 7-km-wide caldera. [mehr]